Rebecca was born Rebecca Wittler in Manchester, England. She paints under her ancient Hebrew name Rebecca Bat-Raphael.
She studied art at St Johns College, Manchester where she was a pupil of James Callaghan, who later became MP for Middleton. From him she learned the qualities of her line and drawing.
At seventeen Rebecca left the UK and went to live in Israel, where she first studied Computers and Mathematics at the Bar-Ilan University. Later she studied at the High School for Art in Tel-Aviv under the tutelage of Marcushinski, the founder of the school, who had studied art in Central Europe before the second world war. From Marcushinski she learned her water color techniques.
She then studied for a short time at the Avni art college.
Then she became a private pupil of Lev Steiman, who had studied in the St Petersburg Academy in Russia.
Lev was a master of oil painting and from him she learned the secrets of his trade.
She then became the assistant manageress of the Carlyle Gallery in Tel-Aviv, where she worked for a year before returning to take an extended degree course in Art History at Tel-Aviv University.
Whilst at University she worked for the Binet Art Gallery in Tel-Aviv.
Upon leaving University she taught art at the Ort School in Tel-Giborim, Holon, for a couple of years and started to teach evening art classes at Tel-Aviv university.
In 1990 she managed the Rig Gallery in Tel-Aviv untill it closed due to the Gulf war and in 1991 she opened a small art studio in Tel-Aviv which she later had to close due to the war.
During the scud missile attacks of 1991 she gave art lessons in the basement under her house.
From 1991 Rebecca worked as a graphic designer for various companies in Israel and the UK, doing work for such companies as Microsoft and Gillette.
She started to build websites in 1995 following the death of her son Arik, who was killed by Hamas terrorists in 1994. Her first website was Arkline, built in memory of Arik. The website contained a memorial site and the famous Arkline dating site, which was the first Jewish dating site ever built. In its heyday this site had millions of visitors and many successes.
Rebecca also built the RAD Data Communications website for six years and left to return to the UK in 2000.
Rebecca did not paint from the day that Arik was murdered for over ten years and has only recently started to paint again.
She now lives and paints in London.
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